Guest Speakers | Climate Change

Overview of California’s Water Supply

Part of our Climate Change and What it Means to California lecture series.
Eric Soderlund, JD, is a staff counsel with the Department of Water Resources' legal office. He specializes in natural resources, environmental, and water law.

Video Posted: January 4, 2011 | Running time: 4:05

Guest Speakers | Climate Change

Overview of California’s Water Supply

Part of our Climate Change and What it Means to California lecture series.
Jeanine Jones is CDWR's interstate resources manager. Her more than 30 years experience with CDWR includes directing the statewide planning program, participating in interstate water negotiations, and working on climate change adaptation programs. She has published numerous technical articles and has taught water-related courses for UC Berkeley extension. Jones is a registered professional engineer in California and Nevada and has a BS and MS in civil engineering.

Video Posted: January 4, 2011 | Running time: 3:44

Conservation Issues | Guest Speakers | Climate Change

Merchants of Doubt

Naomi Oreskes is a professor of history and science studies at the University of California, San Diego. She is an author and editor of many published works, and her most recent deals with the science of climate change. Her 2004 essay "The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change" led to op-ed pieces in the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Los Angeles Times and has been widely cited in the mass media, including National Public Radio and in the movie An Inconvenient Truth.

Video Posted: November 18, 2010 | Running time: 4:01

Guest Speakers | Conservation | Marine Biology

Saved by the Sea - A Love Story With Fish

David Helvarg is president of the Blue Frontier Campaign and the author of five books: The War Against the Greens, Blue Frontier, 50 Ways to Save the Ocean, Rescue Warriors, and Saved by the Sea. An award-winning journalist, he produced more than 40 broadcast documentaries for PBS, The Discovery Channel, and others.

Video Posted: November 14, 2010 | Running time: 3:22

Guest Speakers | Conservation | Oceanography

Flotsametrics and the Floating World

Curtis Ebbesmeyer holds a Ph.D. in oceanography from the University of Washington and is regarded as an expert on ocean currents and floating objects. Each year, Curt presents a booth and talks at beachcomber fairs in Alaska, Florida, and Washington.

One Health Approach to Otters and the Ocean

Dr. Conrad is the professor of parasitology at the University of California, Davis, school of veterinary medicine. She is the recipient of several teaching and research awards and has written over 170 scientific publications. Involved with sea otter research since 1998, she directed the development of methods to detect, isolate, and unravel the life history of parasites that kill sea otters.

Video Posted: October 21, 2010 | Running time: 3:44

Guest Speakers | Business

The Survivor’s Club: The Secrets and Science of the World’s Most Effective Survivors and Thrivers

Ben Sherwood is an author, award-winning journalist, and executive director of TheSurvivorsClub.org. From 2004 to 2006 he worked as executive producer of ABC’s Good Morning America. Sherwood guided prize-winning coverage of the tsunami in Southeast Asia, the devastation of hurricane Katrina, and the presidential election of 2004. His newest book is titled "The Survivors Club".

Video Posted: October 19, 2010 | Running time: 3:03

Guest Speakers | Climate Change | Oceanography

Earth’s Changing Climate: Headed Toward a World Without Ice?

Henry Pollack is professor emeritus of geophysics in the department of geological sciences at the University of Michigan. His current research focuses on the record of climate change as recorded by the temperatures in the rocks beneath the Earth’s surface. Pollack authored the book 'Uncertain Science...Uncertain World', and his newest book is titled 'A World Without Ice'.

Video Posted: October 7, 2010 | Running time: 4:14

Guest Speakers | Business | Marine Biology

The Dawn of the Age of Geoengineering

Eli Kintisch is a reporter for Science magazine, and has also written for Slate, Discover, MIT Technology Review and The New Republic. His reporting on geoengineering has included stories on Bill Gates funding planet-hacking research, DARPA exploring the idea, and a week-long historic meeting in 2010 to begin to draft voluntary rules on the concept. His new book, Hack the Planet, taps such first-hand experiences to draw a thorough portrait of this emerging field.

Video Posted: September 20, 2010 | Running time: 3:58

Guest Speakers | Marine Biology

Caring for the Aquarium’s Animals

Lance Adams has served as the staff Veterinarian at the Aquarium of the Pacific since 2001. He earned his BS degree in animal science from Cal Poly Pomona and his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from Kansas State University. His primary focus is to help keep the animals at the aquarium healthy from day to day and recommend animal care and preventative medicine practices for new species and exhibits.